Under the Term Sheets: The Podcast for Specialty Finance Deal Junkies

Mental health has become a huge focus in recent years especially with 2020 going through multiple challenging events. 5 Senses Journey takes a new approach to mindfulness by incorporating all your senses. The team wants to change people's perception of meditation and educate users on different ways to meditate. Kat Mueller has a great accelerator story and talks with us about mental health and the company she's building.

Over 90% of the data generated today is represented by photos, videos, audio and text, stored and handled in a very inefficient way. Through pivoting, Y Combinator alum startup Activeloop has come up with a new way of working with data that they call Data 2.0. The startup's ambition is to make machine learning faster and less costly through their solution, that also enables active learning at scale - a method of achieving superhuman accuracy in machine and deep learning models. Since its launch, the company's open-source framework has seen fast growth in adoption, and has been used by Waymo, Red Cross and World Resources Institute. 

Less than 1% of all sports sponsorship dollars around the world go to women's sports, and The Pivot is looking to change that. The Pivot is an online platform that facilitates partnerships between professional women athletes and companies, with the goal of elevating the visibility of women athletes and providing companies with a unique way to grow their brands and businesses. This year, they're excited to welcome more athletes and companies into their community, and also expand the ways in which they support their athletes.

Nike Trainers and Nike+ Run Club Coaches Jason Loebig and Bret Gornik have accumulated nearly 20 years of wellness experience by charting their own course through the biggest corporations to starting their own wellness company from the ground up. Bret talks to us about starting this venture after Jason and Bret left more traditional corporate careers to improve the lives of their coworkers through wellness and health. Take a listen to get motivated for 2021!

Inspired by the coastlines of California, Gray Whale Gin was created by Marsh and Jan Mokhtari to bring people together for good times and do good in the world. They combined their superpowers of creativity to create a gin infused with ingredients all along the California coastline. Every bottle of Gray Whale Gin supports Oceana, protecting and restoring the world's oceans, so that Gray Whales will continue to make that epic journey for another 30 million years.

NXTSTOR is a revolutionary new concept in the self-storage industry, creating a peer-to-peer marketplace that connects people with space to people with stuff. Based in Columbus, Ohio, our team is proud to present to you the cheapest, most flexible and most convenient self-storage solution on the market. If you find yourself with extra space in your home, garage, or workplace consider signing up as a host.

Fleri allows you to buy health insurance for your family back home overseas. Fleri wants to help the 42 million US immigrants provide healthcare for their loved ones back home. According to the UN, 25% of the remittances sent back home overseas is spent on healthcare yet the outcomes do not reflect this investment. Listen to how Fleri hopes to create efficiencies in the healthcare space for developing nations. 

Joan Kelley, founder of Abound Parenting, is an educator and parent building a tool for educators and parents to help children become better readers. The app facilities conversations with your child to help develop stronger vocabulary and make the connection between words and meaning. 

Imagine you had a security analyst on your team who could analyze every single alert generated by your security tools 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and based on external threat intelligence and business context, escalate only the most important ones to you for further review. SOC.OS is that analyst.SOC.OS was born within the internal incubator of BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. Listen to Dave Mareels tell us how they started in a corporate incubator and found themselves fundraising externally to scale their new company!

Capbase is working to streamline legal paperwork for startups to free up time and capital. Their mission is to create solutions for multiple startup business operations to help them launch their company more efficiently.Listen to how founder, Greg Miaskiewicz, is launching his second venture with a global remote team!

Bradley Jacobs founded Mylance to help freelancers manage their work life with intention and create room for other amazing things in life.  After leaving Uber, he offered to work for a few startups which led to him freelancing. Now, he is teaching others in the tech industry and more pivot out of their corporate jobs into freelance freedom. 

Heather Eaton and Jane Dong started Frankly at Stanford GSB in their class, startup garage. They originally wanted to build a Saas business but realized that wasn’t their true passion and switched to braless clothing!They want to create a brand that provides support to women figuratively and literally. The fashion industry operates on outdated concepts and doesn’t create clothes for all women. Jane and Heather want to change that with Frankly. This episode has great advice on experimenting to find what works for you!

Pairess was founded by Amy Jiang and Showly Wang with the mission to help womxn succeed in the workplace through stylish and functional apparel that makes their life easier.Amy and Showly are feminists at heart and wanted to create a brand that makes our customer feel empowered. Their clothing is functional, stylish, high quality, and affordable!

ChartHop is the world’s first organizational management platform empowering leaders and team members alike to see the past and present of their organization and design its future. The platform automagically builds fluid, data-driven views of a company through real-time updated org charts, custom reporting, and headcount planning tools that boost efficiency and transparency across teams.

Cratosys believes in helping businesses transform their subledger process and achieve maximum growth by automating their end to end data entry processes through Robotic Process Automation and Machine Learning.

KindKinis, founded by Los Angeles native, Merilyn Lopez, designs bikinis to fit every woman regardless of her size. They carefully create each swimsuit to accentuate every curve without jeopardizing comfort. They draw inspiration from the latest styles  creating suits perfect for the beach and as crop tops that pair well with your favorite shorts, skirts, and jeans. KindKinis wants to bridge the gap between swimwear, charity, and education. KindKinis is an alternative to the commercial competition and cares to elevate women while creating better solutions to the clean water crisis.

Noether Rudin is a small team with a mission to reduce the financial barrier to education. They are PhDs and Finance experts that loathe student loan debt as much as you do. Noether Rudin partners with employers to create student loan repayment incentive and contribution programs to better serve consumers pay their student debt. Naveed Iqbal, founder of Noether Rudin, talks to us about listen to consumers and adjusting his product accordingly to create something that actually address consumers’ problems. 

Danielle Gopen is the founder of Formosa Coaching. She attended Chicago Booth for business school and worked in financial services before launching her own executive coaching firm. We discuss effective communication, leadership, culture, and the benefits of executive coaching!

Just Enough Wines, founded by Jessica Hershfield, creates quality great-tasting wine in the convenience of a can. Just Enough Wines wants their consumers to have both great quality and convenience. They hand select their wines from the best wine regions in the world to ensure their customers receive that high quality in a convenient format. Jessica and the team recently raised $26k on Indiegogo and will start shipping in September 2020. Take a listen to how Jessica pivoted her career from feeling unfulfilled to launching a company centered around changing the perception of drinking wine.

Merit is a distributed venture capital platform with the mission to diversify the venture capital space. Users anonymously submit analyses and thinking about a company or industry and provide feedback on other users’ submissions. The goal is to allow aspiring investors to create a track record of investment theses to then pursue a career in venture capital. Users will learn how to think about products, markets and teams like an investor. They will train their critical thinking, writing and negotiation skills while doing something that is a lot of fun. If they manage to rank among the top performers, they can qualify to become an emeritus, giving them access to a great network of venture capitalists, which when hiring talent will put them on top of the huge stack of applications.Listen to how Jacob Claerhout is building Merit VC while working as an investor at Partech.